Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion. 2 vols. Edited by John
T. McNeill. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1960. Calvin’s major work, the
most inÀ uential systematic theology text in the history of Protestantism,
in a contemporary translation with excellent scholarly annotations and
extensive indexes.
Caputo, John D. Philosophy and Theology. Nashville: Abingdon Press,
- A brief popular introduction to what I call “left wing” postmodernism,
with particular focus on the intertwining of faith and reason in the
Western tradition.
Cary, Phillip. Augustine: Philosopher and Saint. Audio CD or Audio
Cassette. Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company, 1997.
———. Augustine’s Invention of the Inner Self. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2000. Includes material on the contrast between Augustine
and Denys on the intelligibility and incomprehensibility of God.
———. Inner Grace: Augustine in the Traditions of Plato and Paul. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Provides a detailed account of the
development and theological motives of Augustine’s doctrine of grace.
———. Philosophy and Religion in the West.
———. “Sola Fide: Luther and Calvin,” Concordia Theological Quarterly
(July/Oct. 2007): 265–281. Also available online at http://www.ctsfw.edu/
events/symposia/papers/2007.php. Explains where I stand in agreement with
Luther’s theology.
Catherine of Genoa. Purgation and Purgatory, The Spiritual Dialogues.
Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1979. Writing at the end of the 15th century,
Catherine gives a humane and deeply spiritual account of souls in purgatory
motivated by love for God to embrace their sufferings because of their desire
to be puri¿ ed and their joy in God’s will. Quite different from the scare-
tactics found in most popular treatments of Purgatory at the time, it received
papal approval in 1683.